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The museum of natural history, with introductory essay on the natural history of the primeval world : being a popular account of the structure, habits, and classification of the various departments of the animal kingdom, quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, fishes, shells, and insects, including the insects destructive to agriculture (1869)

Author: Richardson, John, Sir, 1787-1865; Dallas, W. S. (William Sweetland), 1824-1890; Cobbold, T. Spencer (Thomas Spencer), 1828-1886; Baird, William, 1803-1872; White, Adam, 1817-1879; Kellogg, Remington, 1892-1969, former owner. DSI; Library of Congress, former owner. DSI
Volume: v 2 (1869)
Subject: Zoology
Publisher: London ; Glasgow ; Edinburgh : William MacKenzie
Language: English
Call number: 39088015065659
Digitizing sponsor: Smithsonian
Book contributor: Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Collection: biodiversity; americana
Notes: Cullman Library (rare book); some pages were damaged; pages 259-260 are missing in Birds section

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Chromolithographed t.p

Vol. 1 has added engraved t.p

Originally issued in parts, [1859-1862?]

Includes indexes

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SCNHRB has two copies

SCNHRB c. 1 (39088015065618, 39088015065659, 39088015065691) has all the plates bound in v. 1, some of the plates torn with the loss of a few of the images; lacking some of the sectional title pages?

SCNHRB c. 1 has bookplate: In memory of Remington Kellogg. Inscribed on front free endpapers: Presented to the Remington Kellogg Library by Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Ashbby, Scientists Cliffs, Maryland, January 1971

SCNHRB c. 1 quarter bound in recent black goatskin and teal paste-paper boards, title in gilt on spine

SCNHRB c. 2 (39088015065733) incomplete: section of Fishes, with plates, of v. 2 only

SCNHRB c. 2 has bookplate of the Library of Congress, Smithsonian Deposit. Stamped in red on t.p.: Smithsonian Institution

SCNHRB c. 2 half bound in diced sheepskin and marbled paper boards, title in gilt on spine

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